February 2012
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JUVENILES
Described as a mix between Metronomy and New Order, with influences such as Siouxsie & the Banshees and The Smiths, Juveniles is a band that has to meet high expectations.
Wait, what? There’s a spicy italo disco remix? That is always a plus!
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LACE FENCE
LACE FENCE is a design of Dutch Design House DEMAKERSVAN. It is a high-end metal fabric that gives new insights in how you can create unique environments. It combines the ancient craft of lace making with the industrial chainlink fence. Every fence is unique in its design by its craft and assembled patterns, which come in a variety of themes.
Lace Fence shows how something which was meant...
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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
PALMS ON FIRE is a female-fronted four-piece indie-pop band from Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic, Russia. They make uber-catchy beach-pop songs. CALL ME is the latest offering from the group, equally enjoyable as their previous two EPs.
Latecomers to the Palms on Fire experience can freely download their two previous EP’s here and here.
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MAD MEN: SEASON 5 PROMO AND BILLBOARD TEASERS
In preparation for the two-hour season five premiere of Mad Men on March 25th, AMC has rolled out some new marketing. It’s a tricky thing to do, and do well, when your popular show centers on the men and women of an ad agency, but as usual they’ve nailed it. With all the color and clutter of New York City’s skyline vying for your visual attention, these clean and minimalist billboards are...
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SAMUEL MERCURE: SPRING/SUMMER 2012
Samuel Mercure is a young Montreal-based designer with a background as an installation/sculpture artist.
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50/50
50/50 is a 2011 comedy-drama film directed by Jonathan Levine, written by Will Reiser, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen.
Adam is a 27 year old writer of radio programs and is diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer. With the help of his best friend, his mother, and a young therapist at the cancer center, Adam learns what and who the most important things in his life...
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ALBERT EXERGIAN'S MODERNIST TV POSTERS
Television imagery and artwork is rarely of a quality worth hanging on your walls. Welcome, then, Austrian designer Albert Exergian, who’s created a series of modernist images inspired by TV shows that echo recent online reinterpretations of Saul Bass and Pelican Books
(Source: The Guardian)
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SAUL BASS: ONE MOVIE REDUCED TO A SINGLE IMAGE
For the first fifty years of American cinema, posters were comprised of either paintings or photos of favorite stars to lure audiences into darkened auditoriums. And that’s the way it would most likely be today if it weren’t for one man: Saul Bass…
[Paul Zimmerman]
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WISH IT COULD LAST
Oslo producer Pelifics (alias of Eirik Seu Stokkmo) is releasing an EP in two potent acts. Lifetime Volume 1 offers combination of disco and house, infused with a strong homage to 1980’s pop and funk.
The first track of the EP is the ethereal “Wish It Could Last”, a collaboration with (…) Electric Youth.
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MR. SIMPLE
Mr Simple creates garments that we want to wear everyday. For the beach, the boat or on the beat our clothes reflect our lifestyle and surroundings. Mr Simple stands the tides of fashion and sweeping trends with quality pieces that won’t lose their shape after a few washes. Sometimes being simple is not so simple and requires a u-turn from the elaborate and artificial.
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CHROMATICS: INTO THE BLACK [Neil Young cover]
disconaivete:
Chromatics release Kill For Love soon, the follow-up to their 2007 debut Night Drive. The second single off Kill For Love is Into The Black, which is actually a Neil Young cover. Alberto Rossini shot a video in gemini vision back in 2009 for the song, which you can view above.
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INTERSTELLAR
Are you ready for the new Frankie Rose?
So, out with the reverb of the Frankie Rose and the Outs, and in with something altogether more glam, glittering, shivering. On “Interstellar” Frankie takes the lessons learned with her debut album – like reverb as the holy route to pop-grandeur, scaling a wall of teenage tears – fully digests, and transfers those skills into the brave new...
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MAGIC WANDS : SPACE
It’s been a while since we last heard from L.A. girl/guy indie pop duo Magic Wands and now they’re back with their brand new jam “Space”, the first taste from their forthcoming debut full-length album “Aloha Moon”. The follow-up to their 2009′s EP “Magic Love & Dreams” will be released on April 24 via Bright Antenna.
Hear it now:
Magic wands - Space by Benoit.D
(Source: La.Ga.Sta.)
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MAMACITA
MAMACITA is a girl from Santiago, Chile. She makes music for dancing.
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VINTAGE?
Pop collages by DANIL POLEVOY
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IMPERIAL FORCES WALLPAPER
The Imperial Forces Wallpapers are here featuring textured portraits of Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and members of the Empire. This hand-screened, flocked, designer wallpaper is an artistic way to decorate your office, collectibles room, or space station.
The wallpaper was created by Brian Flynn of Super7 for his retail store in San Francisco, then later licensed through Lucasfilm after Star Wars...
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EYES OF PHILLIPA BROWN
Stylish new LADYHAWKE video inspired by the glamorous 70s thriller EYES OF LAURA MARS. Plenty to enjoy.
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FORGET IT
BLOOD ORANGE aka Devonté Hynes will be releasing ‘Forget It’ on the 12th of March as the next single from his debut album ‘Coastal Grooves’. Here’s unofficial (fan-made) video…
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MAD
The fifth season of MAD MEN is approaching (premieres on 25th of March) and ads showing a free falling Don Draper are popping up all over NYC subway. Minimalist design of the ad did not go unnoticed. Yes, it was the perfect canvas for aspiring subway ad men to work on. Inspired by the works of unknown marker wielding artists GOTHAMIST invited their readers to be creative and tag the Mad Men...
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LOOK RIGHT THROUGH
Storm Queen’s, aka Morgan Geist, debut massive tune “Look Right Through” has been just re-released with remixes by the likes of Aeroplane, Dimitri from Paris and Jamie Jones. Aeroplane’s Vito De Luca can do no wrong. He delivers a brilliant take of the track and is already favorite without a test drive. The second remix package comes out on February 29th and features a remix from Art Department...
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PUSSY GALORE
In 1961, a cat call audition was held in Hollywood for a film adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “Black Cat.”
of course, Vincent Price and Peter Lorre got in on the action. Needless to say, it was pussy galore.
Photography by Ralph Crane for LIFE magazine.
(Via Whoranage)
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January 2012
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ORCA TEAM
ORCA TEAM is a 1960s Post Punk Beach Party from the confusing waters of the Pacific Northwest. They make the music of a punk trio if everyone in the band decided to keep their volume low and their tones clean. Each song is short, sung with a lonesome croon, equipped with a melodic bass line, and drenched in reverb. Influences include The Flamingos, Pylon, Jan & Dean and The Smiths.
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BEKO DSL : WEEKLY POPFIX
BEKO DSL, from France, is one SAHWEET record label! Owned by mysterious Jack & Reno, guys with very refined sense for sounds and visuals, their releases are digital only and totally free. Each Monday, BEKO DSL generously makes a new digital single available for everyone. Their back-catalogue features bands like Memoryhouse, Millionyoung, Azure Blue, The Never Years, Moscow Olympics, The...
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THE NEVER YEARS
Back in 2010 Jamie Long grabbed our attention with a beautiful AQUARIUM…
…since then he has changed his ‘stage name’ into THE NEVER YEARS and released a long play debut, LIFE OF DREAMS.
Deserves your attention, too.
The Never Years comes across, at least somewhat, like an early Radio Dept. However, the vocals are deeper and have a sadness unaccounted for in...
RAW AND SENSUOUS
Founded by artist Karen Combs in 2005, NAMA ROCOCO makes unique, hand painted, hand printed wallpapers inspired by the French Rococo period, Chinese hand scroll paintings of the Quing Dynasty, Funkadelic album covers…
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NEW SAINT ETIENNE : "TONIGHT"
Tonight is the firs single from Saint Etienne’s forthcoming album - their first in seven years.
Like the album it’s taken from, Tonight is all about the primal and atavistic pull that all good pop music exerts, about how the unadulterated thrill of a great band or gig can sometimes feel like a hotline straight to your heart.
The track is produced by Xenomania lynchpin TIm Powell...
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PERFECT SENSE
Perfect Sense, formerly known as The Last Word, is a 2011 drama film directed by David Mackenzie and written by Kim Fupz Aakeson, starring Eva Green and Ewan McGregor
When Susan (Eva Green), an epidemiologist, reemerges from an affair gone sour, she encounters a peculiar patient—a Glasgow truck driver who experienced a sudden, uncontrollable crying fit. Now he is calm, but he has lost his...
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THE LONE ASTRONAUT
> SCOTT LISTFIELD is known for his paintings featuring a lone exploratory astronaut lost in a landscape cluttered with pop culture icons, corporate logos, and tongue-in-cheek science fiction references. Scott studied art at Dartmouth College, which was maybe not the brightest thing to do. After some time spent abroad, Scott returned to America where, right around the year 2001, Scott began...
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PLASTIC FLOWERS
> PLASTIC FLOWERS is Sean Earl Beard. It’s been said that he is one of the most promising artists in the ‘nu-romantic’ scene, aka hazy guitar driven indie pop gems with a special reverence for the early 80’s. This is his latest video.
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FILESONIC GOES DOWN!
It appears the recent arrests and shut down of popular file sharing site MegaUpload may be making other sites question their positions after another popular file sharing site, FileSonic, has appeared to have bowed to pressure about illegal file sharing on it’s network, now only allowing personal upload files to be retrieved.
This message now appears on the site:
“All sharing functionality on...
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MEGAUPLOAD SHUT DOWN BY FEDS / NEW ADDRESS
giogiostar:
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has conducted a major action to shut down MegaUpload, a popular file-sharing site widely used for free downloads of movies and television shows.
After receiving indictments from a grand jury in Virginia for racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and other charges on Jan. 5, federal authorities...
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BOY LONDON
> Founded by Stephane Raynor in 1977, the story of BOY is a true one off, in that that the wildest rumours and legends that surround it couldn’t hope to compete with the reality. Beloved by the underground, but frequently courted by an overground hungry for a piece of BOY’s trademark attitude, it remains the label that everyone wants in on. From Warhol, to Madonna, Punks through to New...
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RENAULT 4 EVER COMPETITION
Last march, “Designboom” in collaboration with RENAULT asked the world to redesign the iconic RENAULT 4, with an eye towards both contemporary, futuristic styling and economic sustainability.
3273 designers from 92 different countries participated, and in October, three winners were chosen and awarded at a special ceremony in Paris. RENAULT was on hand to record every step of the...
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ANXIETY
LADYHAWKE releases her second album, entitled ‘Anxiety’, on March 19th on Modular Records. It’s the follow-up to 2008’s critically acclaimed, self-titled, debut album.
> Tell us about the name of the album ‘Anxiety’…> I guess it was sort of a tongue in cheek poke at myself. For those who know me know that I have really annoying and unpredictable anxiety, it doesn’t really give...
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PORCELAIN
> by CAROLIN LOEBBERT